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The Food and Drug Administration Friday issued warning letters to all three duodenoscope manufacturers for failing to comply with a 2015 order to conduct postmarket surveillance studies to determine whether health care facilities are able to properly clean and disinfect the devices.
Nancy Agee highlighted the importance of a “culture of caring” and curiosity to “a high-quality, highly reliable organization.”
The AHA Physician Leadership Experience, available exclusively to AHA Physician Alliance members, teaches physician and administrative executives how to first lead themselves.
Iowa hospitals generate more than 132,000 jobs that add nearly $7.1 billion to the state's economy.
AHA supports efforts to expand the types of educational degrees that would be eligible under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments so as to increase the number of qualified laboratory testing personnel serving the nation’s hospitals and health systems.
A recent Idaho bulletin on requirements for state-based health plans in the individual market “may not be substantially enforcing provisions” of the Affordable Care Act.
Senators this week asked Health and Human Secretary Alex Azar and Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta to review whether Anthem or any other health plan’s emergency department coverage policies violate the prudent layperson standard.
The flu hospitalization rate rose last week to 86.3 per 100,000 people, although outpatient visits for flu-like illness peaked in early February and are on the decline.
Employment at the nation's hospitals rose by 0.25% in February to a seasonally adjusted 5,143,400 people, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.
Rep. Peter Roskam (R-IL), chairman of the Health Subcommittee on Ways and Means, will speak at the AHA Annual Membership Meeting on May 8 in Washington, D.C.